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Re: cygwin/x and zonealarm firewall
- From: Arturus Magi <sailorleo at hotpop dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:31:46 -0400
- Subject: Re: cygwin/x and zonealarm firewall
- References: <BAY19-F10VtwxYi2zQz0000321b@hotmail.com>
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BJ Garman wrote:
I saw on the website that some users had problems getting cygwin/x to
run properly with ZoneAlarm firewall by zonelabs to work. I myself
played around with it and found that it can be made to work easily by
setting a few simple things within your zonealarm firewall. Cygwin/x
must be able to act as a server and must be able to use its default ip
addressing.
It's not that simple. ZoneAlarm implements it's security by replacing
the Winsock with it's own code. In some cases this irreparably breaks
programs that depend on the Winsock, like Cygwin/X.
ZoneAlarm 4.5 works fine, but ZoneAlarm 5 doesn't, as far as being able
to run X. Other programs work with ZA 5 but not 4.5. Some simply don't
work with either.